Victorian contexts
Subtitle: literature and the visual arts
By: Murray Roston.
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 246
Subjects: English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Art and literature -- England -- History -- 19th century; Aesthetics, British -- 19th century
Description: What, if any, is the relationship between Charles Dickens, and the decorative arts? Between Henry James and Art Nouveau? Between the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins and the paintings of the Impressionists?

Recent trends in scholarship have begun to reassess the assumption that the arts of painting and literature are too fundamentally disparate to permit a fruitful comparison between the two. In Victorian Contexts, Murray Roston puts that assumption to rest once and for all, with imaginative and refreshing essays on the similarities and shared themes of the literature, paintings, architecture, and crafts of the nineteenth century.

Explaining the value of such an intertextual approach, he argues that in every generation there is "a central complex of inherited assumptions and urgent contemporary concerns to which each creative artist responds in his or her individual way."
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 196-236) and index.